“I didn’t want to let you in. Didn’t want to care about anyone. It felt like such a risk.” My heart hammered against my ribs as blood roared in my ears. Was this it? The time he told me he couldn’t do this? Couldn’t handle the pain a relationship could bring? “But you stormed in anyway. You tore down every wall I put up. I didn’t want to love you. But I fucking do. With every part of me. It’s not a sappy love. It burns. Scars. It changed me. All in the best ways. I love you, Rho. And it killed that I was too scared to give you those words until now.”
